>> bay area news coverage starts now. >> an armed police standoff is underway at the bank of america in marin. we now know why that man is so upset. >> he isn't after money but he feels ripped off. rights now negotiators are trying to end a standoff on core data ma deer a. police have several intersections blocked. heather homes has been on the

scene all evening as investigators work to end the situation peacefully. heather. >> reporter: it's not cash but a conversation the man tonight is demanding to speak to the ceo of bank of america saying the bank ripped him off. right now here at this 76 gas station across the street from the bank negotiators are inside talking the man trying to talk him out. but i'm told that they'll wait it out until they learn the man is mentally ill and hasn't been taking his medication. ktvu cameras caught the man with a bank of america grudge. walking around a benke took over 6 hours ago. >> i was trembling. >> reporter: she said she was depositing a check and she went silent and a look of fear on her hive. >> he was not pointing the gun to anybody, he was moving the gun, he told me if you want to

get out just get out. >> reporter: silva though was concerned about those remaining inside. >> it was like a pain for my heart, i know i'm getting out, but how about the ones that are gonna stay here. >> reporter: officials from several law enforcement agencies including the f.b.i. soon arrived, they blocked off a half mile radius and began negotiations. s.w.a.t. team members surrounded the building and 15 minutes later the remaining 6 bank customers and through employees were released. >> he has told us he doesn't want to hurt anybody but we have seen him, he does have a handgun, don't know if it's a replica or a role handgun at this time. >> reporter: the 25-year-old man has accused have the bank of cheating him and has put up signs in the front window. >> we are talking, negotiating, want to get this to a resolution. >> reporter: the man's sister, i'm told , is here on site an co-operating with officials. investigators say they are continuing negotiations but with little progress and frank and julie, there is no word

tonight on when the surrounding roads here will reopen. reporting live tonight here in core tea ma deer a i'm heather holmes. four days have now passed since the great earthquake in japan and the crisis there appears to be getting worse by the hour. japan's prime minister kan says radiation is escaping and posing a health threat. this is a high risk of nuclear power plant explosions. the official death toll from the quake and tsunami is more than 2400 but it is still expected to climb much higher. the geological survey recalculated it and now puts the magnitude at 9 up from an 8.9. threw new problems at the football game machinery a die eachy nuclear plant. it is in one of the hardest hit areas and today there was an explosion at the number 2 reactor. japanese officials say the containment structure had been damaged to what tent is not clear.

and a fire probing out at the number 4 reactor but it was extinguished, they asked a nuclearening here in the bay area about the possibility of a complete meltdown. >> we don't know how much of the core is destroyed, so until we know that or up til there's some evidence of more serious events, it's contained. >> japan's prime minister is urging people within 19 miles of the plant to stay indoors to avoid radiation sickness. one physicist said today the situation is much worse than pennsylvania's three mile island. the u.s. navy repositioned the aircraft carrier u.s.s. ronald reading an farther away from the northern japan coast to avoid radiation expose you are. 17 members of the helicopter crew were exposed to about a month's worth of radiation after flying a relief mission. however, after scrubbing down with soap and water they were declared contamination free. the nuclear disaster in

japan is prompting concern about the concern of radiation fallout reaching the north coast of the united states. the california government has three radiation detecting situations one in sacramento, one in san jose, and one in san francisco. he got a look at the data they use to make sure we're safe. >> reporter: we're at the corner of van ness, in front of the bay area air quality management office, 7 stories above the street on the roof is the federal government's radiation detection device. 142 feet above sea level sits this device operated by the environmental protection agency's national air and radiation laboratory. radnet as it is called can detect minute changes in radiation levels across the country. >> it is capable of reading radiation levels on a real time basis and filter media inside the instrument ha we send to the laboratory twice a week.

>> reporter: the device can pick up traces of beta and game a particles as well as uranium and plutonium. following explosions at the nuclear plant particles would likely get picked up by the jet stream, the fast-moving current of air that travels from asia to the west coast. but experts say they believe any radioactive material will diminish by the time it reaches us. >> they are monitoring the information very carefully. which is normal operating procedures for them. if they see anything out of the ordinary they give us a call. >> i think it's kind of scary but i mean japan isn't the only place there's like nuclear power plants so kind of like we did it to ourselves. >> reporter: on the sidewalks, people had no idea the radiation detection device is operating just above. one said he has little control over the events in japan. >> it's far away now and there's nothing i can do about it so, until somebody says, you know, evacuate or whatever,

just have to wait and see. >> this thing is up and running and obviously up to tonight we don't have any radiation concerns. >> that's exactly right. >> reporter: so how sensitive is that equipment up there? i'm told that recently it discovered tiny particles of radiation from recent nuclear weapons tests in north korea. live in san francisco, ken wayne, ktvu channel 2 news. in the hardest-hit areas of japan finding food and other basic supplies is difficult if not impossible. long lines of cars are forming and almost every gas station that is open. people waited hours and hours and sometimes the stations ran out of gas before they could get to the pumps. that's not the only shortage, millions have now gone for four days with few deliveries of food, water, or warmth from the bitter cold. and ktvu jena katsuyama is in tokyo, she arrived 48 hours ago and she joins us live with skype and the latest.

we're hearing there have been some slight detections of radiation in tokyo. what can you tell bus that? >> well, julie, we went out of the hotel and we were out in the street talking to people, came back just a short time ago. but here is what we're hearing. there have been radiation that seems to have reached tokyo. chiba, which is about 218 kilometers from where this blast site is. we're distant but there is some movement of this radiation. i'm looking through some of these things that are coming in. we understand in the eye tom a prefecture, many people in tokyo live there, they have been 40 times the normal level of radiation. now we're being told that that isn't enough to cause any human harm but obviously a great concern when you hear those kinds of numbers. one woman on the street told me, who is there, says some of the stores are starting to run

out of basic necessities, water, toilet paper and other goods, so there's obviously a lot of concern here an unease as you're hearing that some of the radiation levels are ticking up even the slightest bit. >> jana, you kind of touched on this a moment ago, when you were talking about the shortages. obviously shortages of foot, water, gas in the affected areas. now you're also hearing about some shortages there in tokyo? >> reporter: that's right frank. it's hard to tell if some of it is being prompted by these prompted by the reports of people stocking up on it, or moving supplies through the country. i'm show sure you've heard of the travel infrastructure with trains and other roads not having complete free access. so there are a lot of problems that are starting to compound here and, you know, let me tell you it's -- you know, i think here in tokyo, there is a great sense of media see and urgency

not only in wanting to try and get help up to the affected areas, but also looking here down the street here in the hotel at your business, a lot of concerns much and we're going to be trying to get some more information and bring that to you a little bit later on in the newscast. >> all right. jana, thank you very much. we'll check back in with jana coming up at 10:30. you can also find her blog dispatch from japan on ktvu.com. in arlington, virginia, president obama commented again today on the natural disaster in japan, saying he like most americans is watching the tragedy as it unfolds. >> i've said directly to the prime minister of japan, prime minister kan, the united states will continue to offer any assistance we can as japan recovers from multiple disasters. the u.s. military is already delivering supplies, u.s. rescue teams and nuclear experts are said to be working with japanese officials to

provide assistance where they are needed the most. the operators of the two nuclear pow power plants here in california say the ocean- side facilities are able to withstand large. the santa know pray plant is located in northern san diego county and the diablo county in the san luis obispo. they say it can withstand a magnitude 7 quake. diablo canyon can handle a 7.5 quake. diablo canyon is currently in the process of getting its license renewed. stay with us for continuing coverage, we'll bring you the latest developments from japan and the impact here in the bay area. later this hour we'll go live to santa cruz where the harbor there remains closed after last week's tsunami. what we heard tonight about access to boats plus the outpouring of support from japanese victims from here in the bay area and how you can help. also, why an early warning system for,may still be years away from reality in california.

one person was killed today in a head-on collision north of the antioch bridge. two others were hurt and taken to local hospitals. it happened about 1:15 on state highway 160. the driver of a red pickup truck swerved and then hit the white head on. one driver said the driver of the red truck was driving recklessly before that crash. a roll-over accident in oakland sent one man to the hospital. the roads were wet when a driver lost control and slammed into a tree at stanford avenue and 60th street. the man was in stable condition, reports say, and did not appear to have life- threatening injuries. we've got some rain in the forecast. here is the latest computer model. when i come back in about 10 minutes i'm gonna run that through your tuesday, and i'll show you when the heaviest rain will get here. >> things got even worse here today at the 880-92 interchange and caltrans says that means, soon, things will be getting better. for good.

a new twist tonight for bay area commuters navigating the busy interchange between highway 92 and 880 in hayward. caltrans reconfigured the lanes to accommodate construction and that's causing confusion. more than 650,000 cars and trucks use that connector every day. >> reporter: the 880-92

interchange is always a headache for drivers but today was even worse. brackets car horizons ] >> this is a nightmare. >> reporter: that's because this is the first commute day since they reconfigured link after coming off the san mateo bridge. some confused drivers trying to get on to the 880 sitting through what we called a u-turn second. >> babily la johan section didn't mind. her dad did. >> i would just love them to fix it some day. you know. my commute should be 30 minutes, it's usually an hour. >> reporter: and traffic also backed upcoming off the san mateo bridge as they tried to merge into the new 2 right hand lane to go north or south on 880. >> things like this are fairly normal during the first few days of a dramatic change which that was. >> reporter: this is just another painful step in the

four-year-long project to redo the dangerous and congested 92- 880 interchange, second only to the bay bridge maze. instead of four clover leaves they are building what they call two direct connections or from this to this. >> i'd like to think that we're somewhere between third base and home plate. >> this whole mess finally should be finished by early september. a project cal tran says is on time and on budget. in hayward, realty a williams, ktvu channel 2 news. we have a news update now, we want to show you some more live pictures from core take madeira where we have just learned a police standoff has ended. it ended after a man inside a bank of america there has reportedly given himself up to authorities. now this whole situation began earlier this evening, a number of hours ago, around 5:00 this evening when the man went

inside the bank. he felt upset reporting he had been ripped off, wanted to talk to officials there at the bank. finally all of this has come to an end as that man has given himself up after a tense standoff with police. we're awaiting a live press conference and we do have a reporter on the scene and we'll bring you that press conference as it begins the. the judge presiding over the barry bonds trial ruled she will allow media access to the completed questionnaires of prospective jurors during the selection process. the defense lawyer argued she liked the judge's judgment the public should know. he is accused of lying to a grand jury when he said he never knowingly took performance enhancing drugs. the sponsors of the ban on same-sex marriage told the california supreme court that they have a legal right to defend the ban in court. they say judges have always

given the broadest possible interpretation of citizen's rights in the initiative process. the ninth circuit court of appeals has asked the state supreme court to decide if the marriage groups that sponsored prop 8 have the right to argue on its behalf since both the governor and the attorney general declined to take part in the appeal. b.a.r.t. crews managed to clear the tracks after 10 cars of a two- car train jumped the tracks yesterday. they took a close look at the rails and cars today after a train finished lifting the two derailed train cars back onto the track early this morning. a b.a.r.t. spokesman tells ktvu news the public utilities commission is now joining the investigation and it could take weeks before a cause is pinpointed. the 10-car train derailed yesterday morning outside the concord station. no one was seriously hurt but three people complained of back pain. pg&e is facing a deadline tomorrow to show its gas pipeline pressure levels are

safe. this is a direct result of last september's deadly explosion in san bruno that killed 8 people. if the california public utilities commission isn't satisfied the pg&e is operating safely it may order extensive and costly new tests, it could even order pg&e to replace some pipelines. hundreds of students at two oakland schools learned a tough lesson today about how heartless some people can be. as ktvu's john sasaki tells us when they showed up for class they found tens of thousands of dollars in damage. >> reporter: the 500 students at pride school came into find out someone had damaged their home. >> reporter: what did it look like in your classroom. >> terrible. >> reporter: how? >> they broke all the windows, tore down the papers. >> reporter: 30 classrooms were vandalised and many of the contents stolen. >> computers were stolen, networking phone systems,

projectors, a lot of electronic equipment. >> reporter: to get to that safe this is what they did to the principal's office doors. >> first and foremost it's about the kids, they come here, feel safe every day and yet today they don't. >> reporter: in recent years there have been about 10 other brake-ins here but thatth was by far the worst. >> sad to see that there is some, those few team in the community, that don't value the school. >> reporter: a couple miles away a very similar crime. a classroom at elm hurts middle school was hit overnight friday. >> this metal great had been forced up and pushed up and ripped out of the wall and that the window had been forced entry with the window and these computers had been removed. >> reporter: back at oakland pride young edgar assessed the people who did this. >> horrible that somebody did this to our school. >> reporter: they are searching for the criminals who did all this, even looking at the

possibility that it was an inside job. i'm john is sasaki, ktvu news. they keeping a close eye on a leaking levee, it holds back water in a creek just north of clear lake. it's along reclamation road, this video shot by the lake county shows crews sand bagging around a pipe earlier today. they tell us 25 homes were under a voluntary evacuation earlier today but the worst appears over. in sacramento county an advisory tonight to those downstream from folsom dam. this evening the federal bureau of reclamation increased it's releases to the lower american river from 8,000 to 15,000 cubic feet per second. they are part have the yearly flood control management and coincide with the wet weather forecast this week. and a wet week we do have ahead. as julie mentioned a few showers to the tune of a half inch in some places, most of us

a quarter inch. here is the latest computer model for tomorrow, 8:00 a.m. your morning commute looks pretty dry but all the rain is north so watch what happens. 9:00 a.m. it is getting closer, range in santa rosa 9:00 a.m. that's gonna shut you down if you have outdoor activities, 11:00 a.m. raining in the south to mill valley, still dry in oakland. then around noon it moves through most of the central bay area and then at 1:00 you see scattered showers everywhere. so the main hit is from about 10:00 in the morning until about 2:00 in the afternoon, 3:00 the rain heads in the san jose area and moves out for the afternoon, the late afternoon commute. a wet day tomorrow, we saw that. when we come back we've got a wet week ahead and we'll show you which days will be the wettest as we move toward the bay area weekend. recreational anglers say they are very excited about the department of fish and game's decision to allow sport salmon fishing in the pacific to begin april 2nd. today's decision marks the first time in four years the commission is allowing for a

normalcy son, today's vote does not take into account commercial fishing or in-river recreational fishing for salmon, the commission will make a decision on those two seasons at future meetings. the harbor in santa cruz is still closed tonight following the surge of water from friday's tsunami. salvage operations are underway to recover sunken boats at santa cruz harbor, and now there are claims that the damage didn't have to be so bad. bu

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launchpad since 1981. endeavor is scheduled to launch on april 19th. a contra costa jury found a caretaker guilty of second degree murder today in the killing of a woman she was supposed to look after, she faces 16 years in state prison when she is scheduled to sentencing next month. she claimed she was hallucinating when she stabbed 70-year-old marry jane scanlon to death last june. the woman bringing a civil suit against two dean zsa college football players is allegedly raping her. she testified boo b the night she says she was gang raped in a party in an off campus home. she told the jury she doesn't remember much because she blanked out from drinking before the alleged rape occurred. prosecutors declined to file criminal charges. another cap sized boat was pulled up from the harbor in santa cruz today but many more are still underwater as a

result of last week's tsunami. qtvu's lloyd data questions take is there and the reason they are taking so long to bring them to the surface. >> reporter: we're learning that some of the docks are open, 13 of them are now open, and some of the people who live aboard have been allowed back in. the 30-foot trident is one of 17 boats that took on water and sank last friday when destructive surges swept through the harbor. it took all day to bring this boat out of the water and on to land. the owner lived aboard and ran a hardwood floor business from his boat. it is a complete loss. >> it's painful to watch this, you know, trying. just about everything you can think of. it's surreal. we're just trying to work through it. >> reporter: is to far, five boats have been pulled out. another 10 are still missing, and the salvage operation goes slowly. >> when we're pulling these boats out we don't want to

rupture fuel tanks which would dump a whole load of fuel in the water. >> reporter: few docks suffered the most damage and they said it had been weakened by a previous collision. >> they hadn't got down to fixing it and that's where it broke off so i think the harbor is somewhat responsible. >> reporter: on j doc we found another boat owner who defended the harbor. >> i live here, i work here, i know these guys on a first-name basis, they are doing everything they can. >> reporter: the man whose boat is totaled put it in perspective. >> we also all feel deeply for the japanese you know because we know they are goin' through a much harder time and a much more devastating situation. >> reporter: officials say the harbor will perhaps reopen on sunday, march 20th. live in santa cruz, lloyd lacuesta, ktvu channel 2 news. bay area business, large and small, is helping with japanese disaster relief.

how this hardware store hopes to be an example for others. sit credited with saving

we want to update you now on that standoff we have been following in core tea madeira. we are there with how it came to an end just minutes ago. heather. >> yoo frank, a tense day here in core data madeira coming to a peaceful end. take a look at this video, this is video of the 25-year-old unidentified suspect walking out of the bank of america and being taken into custody. this came after hours of negotiations after officials say went on a rant about inequality with america, his

frustration with president obama, h government and financial institutions namely the bank of america. the police chief says the man agreed to surrender after having communication witness top officials at bank of america. but the headline, the suspect involved in this hours-long standoff has been taken into custody, the police chief says that he does have a mental illness and i was just told minute ago, frank, that that gun he walked into the bank with turned out to be a pellet gun. reporting live tonight here in corte madera heather holmes, ktvu news. while tokyo may have escaped the worst of the quake and tsunami residents there are feeling the effects nonetheless, it is tuesday afternoon and we want to join jana cas yamaguchi a, she joins us by skype. >> it's about the:32 right now and i wanted to update you.

we have been getting reports of the elevated levels here in tokyo of radiation and we understand that tomorrow the winds might shift and actually come south pushing more of that down here towards tokyo. obviously a big concern, we were out on the streets and wanted to find out how it is affecting people. on the streets of tokyo you can feel the concern about this national disaster. they tell me they have been worried about the suffering in the disaster zone. [ foreign language ] >> yoko matsusaka says she is worried about her relatives. some stores have run out of toilet paper and water and other things. he says his home has no water or gas. the government is also calling

all people to conserve. why are the lights out here. >> because you know typical tokyo, the electric power company, they have limited the supply of electricity. >> reporter: in the heart of this building a familiar face from san francisco. he had a message for the bay area. quarterbacky naga meany. >> i appreciate your kind messages and prayers for the damages caused by this natural disaster. some of the big concerns being power to this area, there is concern also about aftershocks, so far today we haven't felt them. yesterday we felt three but of course we're going to be staying here in tokyo with our mobile newsroom in our hotel room and trying to bring you all the information as we get it. reporting live from tokyo,

jayna cattle sue yamaguchi a, ktvu news. satellite images from google taken before and after the earthquake provide a before and after photo. this was taken in 2008. you can see neatly organized suites and feds, ooh you can see smoke from a fire burning to the west, the once-clean streets appear to be nothing more than a massive debris field. here is a photo from 2002 of an area north of sendai, there is a soccer field next to what appears to be a school. now the lines of the field are replaced with a giant sos sign. white cars now surround the field. it looks like the school is being used as some kind of staging area. you can got to ktvu for more coverage. you can link to the photos and you can follow jana's blog. it's under the japan quake tab. the nikkei has been on a

steep slide. now as fears of a nuclear crisis escalate it has gone into free fall dropping more than 100 points or 12% in afternoon trading that is still under way right now. and the financial fall-out also drove u.s. markets lower. the dow dropped 51 points today led by nuclear power plant maker general electric. the nasdaq was off 14. the troubles with the power supply in the after math of the great kuwait has caused them to close a number of factories. although the damage is great the economists say in the long run the damage should not greatly upset the japanese export market. so how about iguodala a hit will the japanese economy take? >> for the japanese economy it's modest and brief but it might be enough to turn japanese slow gdp growth negative for this quarter or the beginning of next. >> those who study the area say the positive news for japan is

that its main ports and industrial centers were not damaged in the quake or tsunami. at&t and verizon are offering free calls and text messages to japan. the at&t offer includes phone calls and text messages from last friday through the end of march. there is a 60-minute maximum for residential land line customers, verizon has pledged to cover calls through april 10th and on verizon there is no limit on minutes. from iran comes word tonight that the second session in the trial of three uc berkeley graduates accused of spying is to be held in may. shane bauer, josh visit tal and sarah shourd were detained in july, 2009, after crossing into iran, the three say they were hiking in iraq and inadvertently crossed the border. bauer and visit tal pleaded not guilty during the first trial session in february. shourd pleaded not guilty in absentia, she was released on bail in september and is now back in the united states. california students braved the rain to call on lawmakers

to rein in their cuts on education. . i'm back in about 7. the storm track shows rain to the north. look at the long-range computer model that shows a lot of rain headed our way through the

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cuts to education. governor brown has proposed cuts. california is facing an estimated $25 billion budget gap. san francisco assemblyman tom amiyano introduced bullying in bullying legislation called seth's law foresight l zest walsh, he was reportedly taunted for being gay. the legislation introduced would require districts to have anti-harassment that includes bullying based on perceived or actual sexual orientation. a survey of transgender teams found 84% of those students surveyed said they were harassed at school. 61% said they were unsafe at school and 12% said they had been physically assaulted at school in the past year.

in news of the world tonight, in libya both rebels and forces loyal to mo ma'am qaddafi claiming control of a key oil port. the government troops seem capable of driving out rebels with their superior firepower but they can't hold territory because their supply lines are weak. since last week the rebels have lost ground but are pledging they will not give up until qaddafi is gone. in the persian gulf nation of bahrain, troops from neighboring saudi arabia arrived today to help prop up the monarchy and possibly help put down ongoing protest, demonstrators were in the streets again today. they are demanding dakiri forms. the shi'ite majority in bahrain wants an end of two centuries of rule by a sunni monarchy. and in poland a collector says he has found a rare photo of famous composure and pianist frederick cho opinion. if authenticated it would be only the third known photo of chopin who died back in 1849. the collector said he acquired the photo in scotland and had

it restored in london, the photo is signed by a pioneering french photographer. a marin county post office is set to take the name of a young army specialist killed in iraq. jake robert velosa of inverness is one of two u.s. servicemen shot and killed by a pair of iraqui soldiers in 2009. the post office in his hometown will take his name. velosa was a football and baseball start at the high school. he was serving his second tour in iraq when he was killed just three weeks before his 23rd birthday. donating to japan as easy as going through a check stand. how one mom and pop stand hopes to

compassion for japan is as overwhelming as the disaster itself. from countries to corporations to children pledging their allowance, donations are rolling in. ktvu's deborah levon is live in bee niche a where she has been looking at some of the donation going on large and small. deborah. >> this benecia hardware store is expecting another thousand dollars day tomorrow, not sales, donations earmarked for japan. >> reporter: shoppers at pedrotti hardware are asked at check out if they would like to donate to the read cross for japanese aid and many do. >> i just can't believe how the devastation and the loss of life and how it's going to take a long time i think for japan to come back. >> reporter: in two days $2,000 and the store owner will match every cent. he has raised money at his registers before. >> reporter: katrina, for indonesia and haiti as well. but this is really the first time we matched it.

we wanted to kick it up. this is devastating. >> reporter: donations of money are preferred so relief organizations can buy what is needed. this fill an tropic organization setup a special fund. >> a lot of credit card processing over the weekend, we're around $40,000 in contributions by credit card. >> reporter: and corporations such as levi strauss, visa and sales force.com are fundraising along with major league baseball. even lady gaga is selling a $5 prayer bracelet on her web site. >> i kind of felt bad that you're place was hit by the earthquake and that some homes are destroyed and stuff. >> reporter: back in benecia this effort may hit its $50,000 goal in no time. >> we're matching dollar for dollar whatever udoh nate today. >> that's great. here is $1. >> all right. >> reporter: he hopes other ace stores, about 100, any retailer can do it, it's quick andied

easy for the customer, they already have their wallet out. reporting live in benecia, ktvu channel 2 news. an early warning alert system for,is credited with saving an untold number of lives. they said an earthquake had occurred 40 seconds before people in tokyo, 220 miles from the epicenter, started feeling the shaking. japan launched its half billion dollars system back in 2007. in the united states the federal government recently invested $15 million in a similar system for california but seismologists say they need another $80 million to complete it and that could take five years. it would also cost another 10 to $20 million a year to monitor it after it is built. well great advances have been made in tsunami warning systems but it's not an exact science so far. by the time the waves reached santa cruz friday morning warnings had been in place for about 7 hours. uc santa cruz researchers said

booies tracked it but anyone living on the coast shouldn't wait for an official warning. >> the earthquake it is the warning, if you feel that real intense shaking and that shaking last for more than a long time then you know there's going to be a big tsunami. >> forecasting exactly how big is the challenge they say. in part because there's little data about the elevation of the sea floor around the coast of the u.s. and we had showers today to the tune of nearly a quarter inch or half inin the heaviest locations, wet on the afternoon commute. showers now reside to the north of us. we are here. showers are going to drift south as we head into the overnight hours into tomorrow. looks like a wet one in store for your tuesday. the forecast goes like this. a few stray sprinkles tonight, tomorrow, a little bit of wetten the morning commute but not a lot, it's the afternoon commute that has the best

chance for some showers. in the extended forecast, just shows a big flow of moisture coming in off the pacific. a very active pacific right now, going to stay like this all week. right now the big hits or the most significant rain will be tomorrow and then again on friday. but in between that, we're gonna see lots of weather like we had today. that sort of moist air comes off the pacific. if it's warm like this you don't need a low pressure system to get some sprinkles. you have the coastal areas that will wring out a little moisture. we could see them maybe an inch in the heavy spots, that's a normal deal, not a big event. it will slow down your afternoon commute. wednesday a few showers, friday a cole colder-type weather system. the long range model. tuesday morning, that's when it starts, 10:00 a.m. to about 1:00 p.m. to about 2:00, 3:00 p.m., starts to die down, the afternoon commute will be showers. the morning commute looks okay, afternoon commute looks wet. then we get thaw the wednesday and it appears showery.

we go into thursday we get some brakes, wednesday night some breaks, thursday some breaks, then out here in the pacific on thursday night into friday this next system is keyed up out here, my model doesn't go that far out, looks pretty wet. the whole time snow in the mountains, this is turning out to be, if this all transpires a really really good water year for the bay area, water, reservoirs, for northern and heck, southern california. >> 62 in vallejo, a wet week ahead. tomorrow morning's commute will be wet but dry for the afternoon, it's warm, mid- latitude systems, that's why you're looking at 63 in san jose. and some moisture, some cool or moist air coming in with maybe half inch to an inch of rain coming in as i mentioned. then as you go into friday, as you get the weekend view, another weather system. this is all the timing is gonna change on all -- everything after wednesday, all this timing is going to change. it just will.

tomorrow's event is 2 or 3. but going to be wet all week. >> thanks bill. >> streets of san francisco, at least some of them, will be free of cars starting this weekend. the sunday streets program kicks off its fourth year next sundaysh march 20th, along the embarcadero. it will be closed to traffic between fisherman's wharf and hialeah bay. a section of city streets will be closed to cars on one sunday each month through october. the closures will provide sp

well for sharks and warriors fans it was a really bad night tonight. >> yoo, kind of rocky. we'll start with the sharks. of course under the category of too hot not to cool down, the sharks playing maybe their best stretch of hockey in franchise history but of course it can't last forever and it hasn't. a couple of losses in a row. in chicago 1-1 in the first, patty marleau gets it to big joe thornton and at the first intermission san jose actually up against the blackhawks 2-1, however a disastrous second period. chicago with five goals, two in the space of three minutes, same guy marian hossa. made it 2-2. jonathan eh

coming up with his 30th goal of the year for chicago making it 6-3, kind of a runaway, but despite the loss it's only san jose's fourth loss in regulation in their last 25 games. that is a good stretch. lakers, celtics, doesn't really matter, every team has a night like that in the nba. a complete dud. no energy. it's less of a surprise when it hammes to a team like the warriors. the warriors sluggish from the gate, down early 19-3, monta ellis picked there, marcus thornton career night. the kings, he had 42 points, a quick two of them. catch up all good for golden state, down by as many as 25 points, monta 2 of his 15, nice spin on the lefty. sacramento just going throw, samuel dalembert dalembert career night himself. 27 points, 16 rebounds. he is on the scoring end of the alley-oop. not a lot of defense in this

one, 129-119 kings. stanford's women's program, shining star, looking for a fourth straight trip to the final four. they'll tampa bay top 4, they'll host uc davis in the ucw at naples pavilion, aggies by the way first-ever bert in the tournament. they get thrown in against stanford on the cardinal home floor no less. you can't point fingers when it comes to injuries particularly to pitchers but when it comes to a's you got to wonder what is the deal. what is goin' on. a month tentially devastating injury, counter balancing the positives, coco crisp with a shot against the indians. he is 15 for 29. two-run triple right there for the a ace but the bad news comes in the seventh inning. watch him. relief ace andrew bailey clutching his elbow, the same one that was operated on earlier for a bone chip.

further tests tomorrow, in fact he is going to be flown to arizona alabama to see a specialist. the giants on the shortened of their exhibition with the brewers. but the great news matt cain who has had elbow inflammation of his own, three